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factories and residences that are among the more important examples of Continental Modernism in the UK. In 1950, Fraenkel was invited to join the faculty of the Department of Architecture, where in 1954 he initiated a program in city design, one of the earliest such programs in the United States. It continued until 1968. With its cancellation, Fraenkel retired from the faculty of architecture at Miami. Fraenkel's many designs – a number today classified as historical monuments – gained early recognition for being amongst those trend-setting projects of the Avant-Garde, appearing in important monographs on contemporary architecture. The monograph begins with a biography of Fraenkel, focusing on his family and clients and their place in contemporary life in Germany, and then presents the complete catalogue of ca. 75 works by Fraenkel in Europe, from single-family houses to industrial complexes. More specifically, the monograph illustrates and analyses in detail the more significant projects, presenting them in context to other contemporary works. These projects are detailed with historic and contemporary photographs as well as original and new graphics. Included in the monograph is a comprehensive list of works with descriptions and (where possible) an illustration. All bibliographic information for the projects is included. Gilbert Herbert Liliane Richter Through a Clouded Glass Mendelsohn, Wijdeveld and the Jewish Connection Text: English 200 pages with 90 illustrations, 3 of them in color Size 19.5 26 cm. Paperback EUR 34.80; US $ 60.00 (2008) ISBN 978 3 8030 0696 7 Despite the extensive bibliography on Mendelsohn and the more limited one on Wijdeveld, there is no other serious study which looks at the topic in the way this book does, throwing new light on the lives of these two architects, and their times. The study is unique in that it focuses on the troubled relationship between them not only as colleagues and friends (a friendship which includes their wives), but as complex, at times enigmatic, personalities. This portrait is set against the unfolding drama of Europe in an age of turmoil. Mendelsohn was a German-Jew, Wijdeveld a Dutch Catholic married to a Jewish wife, and their personal stories must be read in the context of what were for the Jewish people the seminal events of the period: the establishment of the Jewish National Home in Palestine, the rise of National Socialism, Germany‟s dominion over Europe, and the catastrophe of the Holocaust. The book, both in its wide-ranging content and its style, should attract a diverse audience. For academics it is a scholarly, fully-researched work; for the wider readership of professionals, and laymen it is a moving and gripping narrative. It is directly relevant to
those concerned with the history of art and architecture, especially the development of the modern movement in the first half of the 20 th century. It should interest those concerned with the richness of personal biography in all its aspects: family origin, marriage, education, politics, ideology, and religion. For the anthropologist and sociologist there is the question of the interaction of cultures and cultural adaptation. Finally, the book should be of considerable interest to those concerned with the history of the Jewish people, and with problems of Jewish identity, assimilation, intermarriage, and anti-Semitism, in the first half of the 20 th century. Gilbert Herbert, Professor Emeritus, Technion: Israel Institute of Technology, and architect is a widely-published expert in history of architecture, and the „founding father‟ of this discipline in Israel. Liliane Richter, an anthropologist and once curator at the National Museum of Science, Technology and Planning in Haifa, Israel, is now a well-known researcher in cultural and architectural history. Myra Warhaftig They Laid the Foundation Lives and Works of German-Speaking Jewish Architects in Palestine 1918-1948 2 nd edition, revised and enlarged Text: English Translated from the German by Andrea Lerner 416 pages with 481 illustrations and plans Size 22 x 27 cm. Hardcover EUR 24.80; US $ 40.00 (2007) ISBN 978 3 8030 0676 9 In the 1920s and in particular after the Nazis took over power in 1933 and introduced the Nuremberg Race Laws, more than 130 Jewish architects emigrated to Palestine. Their Buildings (e.g. by Alex Baerwald and Harry Rosenthal) had already made a significant contribution to the urban image of Berlin and they now set about laying the foundations of their new home in Palestine. This book provides a comprehensive documentation of works of these architects: Kibbutzim, villages and cities with housing developments, hospitals, schools, universities, theatres, concert halls, administration buildings, etc. The English language edition of the book also includes portraits of the lives and works of some persecuted Jews from Nazi Germany who started out as entrepre<strong>neu</strong>rs when they arrived in Eretz Israel and who, with their descendants, have gone on to represent important branches of Israeli industry. These individuals also laid the foundation of Israel.
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